Microcontrollers continue to improve their networking capabilities. CMX's DHCP Client, one of these improvements, eliminates the need to use fixed IP addresses on a range of 8- and 16-bit ...

The next version of the popular DHCP server Kea is gradually maturing, but before that, the manufacturer is releasing extensions as open source and for testing. The Kea-DHCP software package, which is ...

Years ago, I used to be a network administrator for an organization that had some rather odd security policies in place. One of the existing policies when I got there was that all computers had to be ...

“The Slammer virus affected all the naming resolution pieces in the city,” says Mark Whitt, IS administrator for the city’s IT department. “We couldn’t get the vulnerability under control. So we began ...